Nutcracker.



F. W. PORT.

NUTGEAGKER.

APPLIGATIONIILED JULY 12. 1913.

1,1 17,945. Patented Nov. 17, 1914.

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kfij qa P. W. FORT.

NUTGRAGKER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 12,1913.

193 7 5 Patented Nov. 17, 1914.

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UNITED STATES PATEN T OFElCE.

FOSTER Vi". FORT, OF \VACO, TEXAS.

NUTCBACKER.

Application filed July 12,1913.

T 0 (ZZZ Wi l/1' it may concern Be it known that l, Fos'rnn W. Four, a citizen of the United States, residing at lVaco, in the county of lvlcLennan and State of Texas, have invented new and usefullmprovements in Nutcrackers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to nut crackers, and the primary object. of the same is to provide a simple and effective device of this class adapted for cracking all kinds of nuts and readily applicable to a table or other analogous supporting means and operative to positively crack a nut with a comparatively small amount of applied power.

The improved nut cracker embodies a nut supporting arm which serves to hold one of the nut cracking jaws and also as a guide for the remaining jaw, the arm having an upper grooved surface and the opposing faces or ends of the j aws being provided with con cavities or nut recesses which extend in. part down to and intersect the groove of the arm at such an angle as to cause nuts placed on the arm to be automatically disposed in proper position between the jaws and thus render the nut cracker especially useful and cllcctive in cracking pecans and nuts of that kind end to end, as well as certain classes of heavy nuts that may be better fractured by pressure exerted on opposite sides in contradistinction to an ennwise pressure.

The invention also consists in certain details of construction and arrangementof the several parts which will be more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of a nut cracker embodying the features of the invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section through a portimi'oi the supporting arm and the jaws together with a part of the means for operating the movable jaw. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section taken in the plane of the line 3-3 Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal vertical section through a portion of the nut cracker embodying aslight modification. Figs 5, 6 and 7 are respectively trans-verse vertical sections on the lines 5-5, 6 -6 and 77, Fig. l.

The numeral 5 designates an upright or standard having a clam at its lower exalso has a lower sloping wall Patented Nov. 17, 1914.

Serial No. 778,807.

ity of the upright or standa d 5 and preferably integral therewith is an arm 11 having atits one end a threaded socket or guide 12 and at its opposite end a relatively fixed or stationary jaw 13- in longitudinal alinement with said socket. The inner end or face of the jaw 13 is formed with a concavity or depression 14 which has a lower tapered wall 15 extending downwardly to a groove 16 formed in the upper edge of the arm 11, the said groove as shown by Fig. 1 being of regular concave form in cross-section, as shown by Fig. The lower portion of the wall 15- of the concavity or depression 14 intersects the groov 16. the latter terminating atthe base of the said wall 15, and cooperating with the relatively fixed jaw 18 is a movable jaw 1.7 having a lower slot 18 and embracing fianges 19 to fit over and engage the opposite side portions of the upper edge of the arm 11, the said upper edge of the arm being laterally extended as at 20 to increase the width of the groove 16 relatively to the thinner portion of the arm below and also to provide flange means for engagement by the lower slotted portion of the jaw 17. The jaw 17 is also formed with a concavity or depression 21, said concavity or depression 21 being formed in the end or face of the jaw opposing the concavity or depression ll in the jaw 13. The concavity or depression 22 similar to the wall 15 of the concavity or depres sion 14- the said wall 2 extending fully down to and intersecting the 0 2 l6 and conjointly acting with the sa POVG and the concavity 1-1 tc automaticallv .lace a nut in proper cracking position between the two jaws without requiring the operator to hold the nut. The jaw 13' is movable or shiftable forwardly and backwag'dly on the upper edge of the arm 11 by means of a feed screw 23 engaging the socket 132 and having the outs:- handle or gripping bar m and an inner swivel head 25 rotatahly held in a socket 126 in the outer or rear End of the said jaw 17.

In the modification shown by Figs. 4,5, 6 V and 7, the upper edge of the arm 11 is formed with a Lshaped groove 27 or n groove that inwardly converges, clearly shown by Figs. 5, 6 and 7, but in other yespeets the arm and the jaws are eonstrueted'as me form of the device shown by Figs. 1, and 3 and similnr reference characters are 1ppiied thereto. The screw stem in this instance is connected to the jaw 17 through the medium of :1 r'ylinch'ival herul 28 fitted on a SUCiiQt- 29in the miter end 'of said jaw uniformed with, a eirmmhu'entia] groove 30 .whirh preferably engaged by ,a 5,5- shapeci lockin he 31 winch xnnjz be r nriily Wiihdruwn and dig I the jun from the-screw stem, the naped 10(i'liI1QiCQY being shown by Fig. I 'lnj1':'-cei.\fe the legs "x %h 17 moppositesides "Ferny-1i epeningsflfi.

gweved te EOII'IHHH/YHIIIJC hoi'i'ing seat elned fioieiy by the char-mie of the feed screw 02' SF-K'L v shun It is proposed to (11:1. H10 1 the nut 'ci'uckin' 0f; m u in the m'ent'thai i'h'e ink"; 5, 5. 71,: 3 impaired or fractured m' uL-m-riaii mm: it

slots 13 are henelubl fie maps; the same to" be applied te and' removed fi om' the upper steed-that change in iiie'piopertinns' and v ,ciimensions of the sev ai' pnnts' the i jproved nut ei'neker may be ficioptexii at I withqut departing from the spirit of invez i tienj I hai? is elqimied isi supportiru g ineu'ns' huving u'n angular awn .1. LL per dge of the farm being'leng LT :1 n ('1 the seven-socket of the hlfite i", u ink :in ppem ting feedsb ew engngf igth (E sodich the nppoging' fuesof ihe i being: formed with Hither deep unfit hm. inggio fesinivm'di jfi sinpinn can mnmiiig (1min t1) und i'n'lf 1Q 51i gi'mwe' of the mm, and niemis for hnhiin'u the nut "a 0 J cruekep 35in. whnie' in nrgeqi upphed positlen'. f2. Ina nuifierucl e", the comhznutmn ef an m hhvingnupnort ing'ineuns' and 3&0-

fiuw, both jaws having"c'uvitimi. rim'msing sig legifihe upper edge (if {he mzn heing pre- Yidei}, with :1 iongfitudinnl' greove in its upper ed'g'e extending from side to side/ th weof Fe:- czuming 21f nut th iutomutinuii g' 'piuee" itself in 'n'm 'per craching'pesition reiuiti to the tho juwqsigifld th ia'fiter hnviii'g fihwewm'diy to and "intersecting the groove/(1f the arm r nd. means for netuafi'n'grfiihe fnnv'n'ifle W2 lis sloping convex portions"(unending (Town-' two jaws having cavities in their inner opmy hand in presence of two subscribing Witposilng faces wigh lower sloping convex nesses. Wal s continuin ownwardly to the cove in the arm, 111% a feed screw means rota- FOSTER 5 tably and separably connected to the mov- Witnesses:

able jaw for actuating the latter. ENEx S. MCKENNEY,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set J. F. BAUGH. 

